Cloudns.net service availability update

It has been long time since last Cloudns.net service availability update. So here you go, these are Icinga statistics for last 31 days for all Cloudns.net DNS servers:

DNS-cloudns-ns1	100.000% (100.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-ns2	96.517% (96.517%)	3.483% (3.483%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-ns3	99.927% (99.927%)	0.073% (0.073%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-ns4	100.000% (100.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-pns1	99.952% (99.952%)	0.048% (0.048%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-pns2	100.000% (100.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%
DNS-cloudns-pns3	100.000% (100.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000% (0.000%)	0.000%

I hope that helps you with the decision whether to use or not Cloudns.net and whether to go with free servers or pay small additional fee for premium servers.

I have to say, I think they improved their service massively. We shall see how it goes in future.

ElasticHosts - weekly update and first SLA refund

First of all I'd like to show you last weeks EH availability graphs:

EH VM1

EH VM2

As you can see last 7 days it has been 100% working and functional. That's exactly the reason why I have chosen EH as our IaaS provider.

There are couple of things:

1. 22 minutes downtime 2 weeks ago have been refunded under SLA (We got around 6 pounds of credit for 22 minutes). They had problem with faulty switch and problems were 4x 5 minute periods. 
2. Be carefull when you create new VM, problem with their current control panel (which I honestly dont like, it might behave pretty but it is not very usable) is that it will allow you to create machine even if you dont have enough free resources. I made mistake when creating 3rd machine (debian) which I wanted to have only 500mhz cpu and 256 ram. I forgot to change sliders and kept default 2000mhz and 1024 ram and it  created this machine although I did not have enough free resources on my account.
   
   Immediately I got email that I need to increase my credit or in few hours all machine would be switched off. This is not good behaviour, by mistake I created unwanted machine and it immediately charged me. If I did not have SLA credit from EH on our account I would probably disabled all our machines by mistake. Not good.

That's all for now, if you want to have a good try free trial here.